Some books that I have read/reread over the past few years. I am too lazy to track textbooks and comics so they are not included here.

reading list 2024

• Swann's Way: Marcel Proust
• Within A Budding Grove: Marcel Proust
• Nazi Literature In The Americas: Roberto Bolaño

reading list 2023

• Vineland: Thomas Pynchon
• Underworld: Don Delillo
• Mason and Dixon: Thomas Pynchon
• Bleeding Edge: Thomas Pynchon
• Sasquatch The Apes Among U: John Green
• Infinite Jest: David Foster Wallace
• Antwerp: Roberto Bolaño
• The Forge and The Crucible: Mircea Eliade
• 2666: Roberto Bolaño
• Savage Detectives: Roberto Bolaño
• Peace: Gene Wolfe
• There Are Doors: Gene Wolfe
• The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction: Tanner F Boyle
• The Body Artist: Don Delillo

reading list 2022

• Fifth Head Of Cerberus: Gene Wolfe
• Endymion: Dan Simmons
• The Fall of Hyperion: Dan Simmons
• The Rise of Endymion: Dan Simmons
• The Long Ships: Frans G Bengston
• Cocaine Politics: Peter Dale Scott and Jonathon Marshall
• Alchemy: Marie Louise Von Franz
• Soldier of the Mist: Gene Wolfe
• Soldier of Arete: Gene Wolfe
• Soldier of Sidon: Gene Wolfe
• Augustus: John Williams
• Based On A True Story: Norm MacDonald
• Storeys From The Old Hotel: Gene Wolfe
• Ubik: Phillip K Dick
• Libra: Don Delillo
• White Noise: Don Delillo
• Gravity's Rainbow: Thomas Pynchon
• The Crying of Lot 49: Thomas Pynchon
• Inherent Vice: Pynchon
• Mao II: Don Delillo

reading list 2021

• War and the Iliad: Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff
• Capitalist Realism: Mark Fisher
• The Kapetanios: Dominique Eudes
• Lucky Jim: Kingsley Amis
• Iraq +100: Collection Edited by Hassan Blasim
• Gates of Fire: Steven Pressfield
• Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 : Eric Foner
• Ghosts of my Life: Mark Fisher
• A New Outlook On Health: James Boggs
• The World of Odysseus: MI Finley
• The Bagdhad Eucharist: Sinan Antoon
• The Enchantments Of Mammon: Eugene McCarraher
• Blood In My Eye: George Jackson
• Hyperion: Dan Simmons

reading list 2020

• Foucalt's Pendulum: Umberto Eco
• The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion: Yukio Mishima
• The Crusades Through Arab Eyes: Amin Maalouf
• The Design Of Everyday Things: Don Norman
• Notes On The Synthesis Of Form: Christopher Alexander
• Rogue State: William Blum
• Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy
• Being Arab: Samir Kassir
• The Wizard Knight Books 1 and 2: Gene Wolfe
• Imperial Life In The Emerald City: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
• The Fifth Head Of Cerberus: Gene Wolfe
• All The Clever Words On Pages: Paul Matthew Harrison
• All The Clever Words On Pages Pt 2: Paul Matthew Harrison
• The Priority of Labor: Gregory Baum
• The Shadow of the Torturer: Gene Wolfe
• The Claw of the Concillator: Gene Wolfe
• The Sword of the Lictor: Gene Wolfe
• The Citadel of the Autarch: Gene Wolfe
• The Urth of the New Sun: Gene Wolfe
• The Soul of a New Machine: Tracy Kidder
• Nightside of the Long Sun: Gene Wolfe
• Lake of the Long Sun: Gene Wolfe
• Calde of the Long Sun: Gene Wolfe
• Exodus of the Long Sun: Gene Wolfe

reading list 2019

• Fellowship Of The Ring: JRR Tolkien
• The Two Towers: JRR Tolkien
• Return Of The King: JRR Tolkien
• Grant: Ron Chernow
• Moby Dick: Herman Melvillw
• Godel Escher Bach: Douglas Hofstadter
• Lincoln In The Bardo: George Saunders
• Capitalist Realism: Mark Fisher
• The Three Body Problem: Liu Cixin
• Xenofeminist Manifesto: Laboria Cuboniks
• St. Francis: Nikos Kazantzakis
• Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky : Carl Jung
• The Way Of The Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi
• The Dark Forest: Liu Cixin
• Barabbas: Par Lagerkvist
• Death's End: Liu Cixin
• Orthodoxy: GK Chesterton
• Musashi: Eiji Yoshikawa
• Answering Job: Carl Jung
• Roadside Picnic: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• Autobiography of Malcolm X: Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• Unix: A History and a Memoir : Brian Kernighan
• The Mathematical Experience: Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
• High Rise: JG Ballard